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CHARACTERS from the smash-hit award-winning fantasy television program, “Game of Thrones,” will be featured on a new series of stamps, Britain’s Royal Mail announced Wednes-day.

The collection of 15 stamps will feature British contribu-tions to the U.S. show which is based on the books by George R. R. Martin.

Most of the fi lming for the series takes place in Northern Ireland.

Daenerys Targaryen, Jon Snow and Arya Stark are among the 10 characters featured in the set which goes on sale at post offi ces Jan. 23. The three are played by British actors Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington and Maisie Williams.

The stamps also feature fellow British actors Lena Headey (who stars as Cersei Lannister), Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark) and Charles Dance (Tywin Lan-nister).

In addition, a sheet of stamps

also feature: the Night King and White Walkers; Giants; Direwolves and Dragons; as well as a stamp of the contested Iron Throne.

The “Game of Thrones” production involves a very sig-nifi cant British contribution. Principal fi lming of the series is at Titanic Studios in Belfast, at the Linen Hill Film Studio in Banbridge and on location else-where in Northern Ireland, with additional fi lming in Scotland and European locations includ-ing Malta, Croatia, Iceland and Spain.

A spokeswoman for the post offi ce said: “In addition to the stamps there is an extensive range of products, exclusive souvenirs, limited edition and gifts, not available on the high-street. Products include framed stamps, prints and the Prestige Stamp Book providing behind-the-scenes access to the ‘Game of Thrones’ world — from costume designs to fi lming locations and early set designs.” (Xinhua)

Britain releases ‘Game of Thrones’ stamps

‘Dunkirk,’ ‘Baby Driver’ among ACE Eddie nominees

THE editors of Christopher Nolan’s WWII drama “Dunkirk,” Guillermo del Toro’s cold war fairy tale “The Shape of Water” and Edgar Wright’s high-octane “Baby Driver” are among the feature nominees for the 68th annual American Cinema Edi-tors Eddie Awards, which will be handed out Jan. 26 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

In the category for the best edited dramatic feature, “Dunkirk” and “The Shape of Water” are nominated along-side the work on “Blade Runner 2049,” “Molly’s Game” and “The Post.” For the best edited feature fi lm, comedy “Baby Driver” is nominated with “Get Out,” “I, Tonya,” “Lady Bird” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Mis-souri.”

Among the nominees are Nolan’s longtime editor, two-time Oscar nominee Lee Smith, for “Dunkirk” and Steven Spielberg’s longtime editor and three-time Oscar winner Michael Kahn, alongside his assistant turned co-editor Sarah Broshar.

In 10 of the last 15 years, the winner of the best edited dra-matic feature category went on to win the Oscar for fi lm editing. In 2003, “Chicago,” the winner of the Eddie for best edited musi-cal or comedy, won the Academy Award in the category.

This year’s Eddie nominees for the best edited animated feature are “Coco,” “Despicable Me 3” and “The Lego Batman Movie.” The category was intro-duced in 2010. (SD-Agencies)

U.S. producers will take on Sili-con Valley and the tech bubble in a new feature at Universal.

Michael De Luca and his Michael De Luca Productions will team with Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman via their Brownstone Productions for “Uncanny Valley,” based on a yet-to-be-published memoir by

Anna Wiener. The story is based on Wiener’s experiences as she transitioned from a career in publishing to a new job in the tech world at a startup, which does not pan out as she had hoped.

De Luca and Banks/Handelman are behind two of Universal’s most profi table fran-

chises, “Fifty Shades” and “Pitch Perfect,” respectively. While the third and fi nal installment of the “Fifty Shades” series is set to hit theaters Feb. 9, the prior two fi lms have earned a cumulative US$950 million at the global box offi ce. The third and fi nal “Pitch Perfect” fi lm came out at the end of last year. (SD-Agencies)

Elizabeth Banks to produce ‘Uncanny Valley’

Binoche to get Goteborg lifetime achievement honor

FRENCH actress Juliette Binoche will receive the lifetime achievement honor of the Gote-borg Film Festival, the honorary Dragon Award.

Binoche, who has been a fi xture on the European and Hollywood scene for decades, has appeared in more than 70 fi lms, among them “The Unbear-able Lightness of Being,” “Three Colors: Blue” and “The English Patient,” the latter winning her an Academy Award for best sup-porting actress.

Announcing the honor, Gote-borg’s artistic director Jonas Holmberg called Binoche “one of the most infl uential actors of our time,” whose “iconic performances have helped shape modern European fi lm history.”

Binoche will attend the Gote-borg festival Feb. 2-4 and will receive her honorary Dragon Award at the gala ceremony Feb. 3. She will also take part

in a master class. The festival will screen a retrospective of her work.

Binoche said she hoped the award wasn’t meant to be taken “too serious.”

“I take it as a wink, a tap on the shoulder or even a hug!,” the actress said in a statement. “I feel very lucky doing what I’m doing. I still have the same passion, still have a lot to learn. The joy I’m sharing on the sets are gold to me! Being an actor is a work of service. The key for me, is to do it with full commitment!”

Binoche recently appeared alongside Scarlett Johansson in “Ghost in the Shell” and in Claire Denis’ Cannes Directors Fortnight entry “Let the Sun Shine In.”

Joining Binoche in Goteborg will be Swedish fi lm star Alicia Vikander, who will be honored with the festival’s Nordic honor-ary Dragon Award.

(SD-Agencies)